{"id":"tas:sr-2026-001","name":"Administrative Arrangements Amendment Order 2026","slug":"administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"tas","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":"1 of 2026","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":174150,"registerId":"tas-sr-2026-001-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Short title","content":"### 1 Short title\n\n> This order may be cited as the [Administrative Arrangements Amendment Order 2026](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2026-001) .","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"2","sectionType":"section","heading":"Commencement","content":"### 2 Commencement\n\n> This order takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the *Gazette*.","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"3","sectionType":"section","heading":"Principal Order","content":"### 3 Principal Order\n\n> In this order, the [Administrative Arrangements Order 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2025-039) is referred to as the Principal Order.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"4.","sectionType":"section","heading":null,"content":"### 4.\n\n> The amendment effected by this clause has been incorporated into the authorised version of the [Administrative Arrangements Order 2025](/view/html/inforce/2026-04-12/sr-2025-039) .\n\nDisplayed and numbered in accordance with the *[Rules Publication Act 1953](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1953-050)*.\n\nNotified in the *Gazette* on 11 February 2026\n\nThis order is administered in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.","sortOrder":3}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The order effects an amendment to the Administrative Arrangements Order 2025 and declares that amendment incorporated into the authorised version. The instrument does not set out the substance of the amendment, so the precise change in scope cannot be determined from this order alone; it changes the legal text of the Principal Order but the specific substantive impact is not described here."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument with no substantive provisions included","Cross-references to the Administrative Arrangements Order 2025 (Principal Order) rather than setting out changes in-line","Commencement tied to Gazette notification (timing certainty but procedural)","Clause declaring incorporation into the authorised version (affects legal text but not described here)","Low compliance and implementation detail provided — requires consulting the Principal Order for substance"],"plain_english_summary":"This order amends the Administrative Arrangements Order 2025 and takes effect on the day its making is notified in the Gazette (cl.2). It records that the amendment has been incorporated into the authorised version of the Principal Order (cl.4) and is administered by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. The instrument itself contains no substantive detail of what was changed to the Principal Order."},"summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"Based on the available text, there is no evidence of scope change from the instrument's original intent. It appears to serve its standard purpose of amending the administrative arrangements of the Tasmanian government. However, the absence of substantive legislative text means this assessment is based on limited information."},"complexity_factors":["The instrument is a standard administrative/machinery-of-government order, which is inherently formulaic and low in substantive legal complexity","The provided text contains almost no substantive legislative content — only metadata, status information, and navigation elements — making meaningful analysis very limited","Administrative Arrangements Orders can involve cross-referencing multiple pieces of legislation to understand full effect, which adds mild complexity","Without the actual amendment text, the true complexity of specific changes cannot be assessed"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument updates the Tasmanian government's administrative “wiring diagram,” reallocating ministerial responsibilities and departmental functions so officials, businesses and members of the public know who handles what. It affects public servants’ reporting lines and anyone interacting with government services or regulators.\n\nThe provided text lacks the amendment’s substantive details, so this summary describes its purpose and effects generally rather than listing the specific transfers or responsibility changes."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This amendment order serves exactly its intended purpose: making technical updates to administrative arrangements. It has not expanded beyond machinery-of-government changes."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short (4 clauses, ~100 words)","No defined terms requiring interpretation","No conditional logic or exceptions","No substantive operational provisions — purely procedural","Single cross-reference to the Principal Order","Amendment already incorporated, so this instrument has no standalone operative effect"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a **machinery-of-government amendment** — essentially an administrative tidy-up that changes which government department handles certain functions.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Amends the *Administrative Arrangements Order 2025* (the 'Principal Order')\n- The specific changes have already been merged into the main 2025 Order, so this document just records that the update happened\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Public servants (tells them which Minister and Department is responsible for what)\n- Anyone dealing with government (though the practical effect is invisible — responsibilities just shift between departments)\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThese Orders are the 'wiring diagram' of government. They determine which Minister answers questions in Parliament about which topics, which Department handles which laws, and where the budget money sits. This amendment keeps that wiring diagram up to date when responsibilities move between departments.\n\n**Key point:** The actual substance of the change isn't shown here — this document just confirms an amendment was made and absorbed into the main Order."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"circular_definition","section":"Responsible Minister and Department","severity":"high","reasoning":"An Administrative Arrangements Amendment Order modifies the Administrative Arrangements Order. Directing readers to consult the current (pre-amendment) Administrative Arrangements Order to find the responsible minister creates a circular dependency: the amendment order's own authority is contingent on the document it is amending, and the responsible minister may have changed as a direct result of this very amendment.","confidence":0.82,"description":"Self-referential identification of responsible minister: the instrument directs readers to 'See the latest Administrative Arrangement Order' to identify the responsible minister, but this instrument IS an amendment to that very Administrative Arrangements Order. The responsible authority cannot be determined by reference to the document being amended."},{"type":"impossible_compliance","section":"Currency of version / Authorisation","severity":"high","reasoning":"An amendment order must contain operative provisions specifying what is being amended. The entirety of the document as presented consists only of metadata, status information, and navigational headers — repeated verbatim multiple times. There is nothing to comply with, implement, or enforce, rendering the instrument's legal existence paradoxical: it purports to amend but contains no amendment.","confidence":0.91,"description":"The instrument states it is 'current from 11 February 2026 to date' and was 'accessed 5 April 2026 at 11:35', yet no substantive amendment provisions, operative clauses, or amendment text appear anywhere in the document. An amendment order with no discernible amendment content is logically void on its face."},{"type":"retroactive_impossibility","section":"Table of Amending Instruments","severity":"low","reasoning":"A table of amending instruments is logically only meaningful after an instrument has been in force and subsequently amended. Including it as a structural element of the original instrument at commencement presupposes amendments that cannot yet exist.","confidence":0.65,"description":"The Table of Amending Instruments section, which should list instruments that have amended THIS order, appears within the order itself at the time of its initial commencement (11 February 2026). At commencement, no instruments could yet have amended this order, making a table of amending instruments for a brand-new order either empty (and therefore purposeless) or pre-populated (which would be retroactively impossible)."},{"type":"self_contradicting","section":"All Sections — Document Structure","severity":"medium","reasoning":"Where two identical provisions exist within the same instrument, principles of statutory interpretation struggle to resolve which instance controls. While courts may treat this as surplusage, in an amendment order — where precision of operative text is paramount — duplicated provisions could create uncertainty about the instrument's legal effect, particularly if the duplicated content were ever to differ between instances.","confidence":0.74,"description":"Every heading and section in the document is duplicated verbatim (e.g., 'Status Information Status Information', 'Currency of version Currency of version', 'Authorisation Authorisation'). This systematic duplication either reflects a structural drafting error that may affect the legal identity of the instrument, or creates ambiguity as to which instance of each provision is operative."}],"contradictions":[{"severity":"low","section_a":"Currency of version (Status Information block)","section_b":"Currency of version (duplicated block lower in document)","confidence":0.61,"description":"The same currency statement ('Version current from 11 February 2026 to date') appears in two structurally separate sections of the document. While currently identical, the document architecture treats them as distinct provisions. Any future update that modifies one instance but not the other would create a direct internal contradiction about the currency of the version."},{"severity":"medium","section_a":"Responsible Minister and Department — 'See the latest Administrative Arrangement Order'","section_b":"The instrument's own status as an Administrative Arrangements Amendment Order","confidence":0.78,"description":"The instrument directs readers to the 'latest Administrative Arrangement Order' for ministerial responsibility, while simultaneously being an order that amends that document. If this amendment order changes ministerial arrangements, the 'latest' order at the moment of reading may already reflect this amendment — meaning the cross-reference is either current (making the direction tautological) or outdated (pointing to superseded arrangements), depending on when it is consulted."}]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026","history":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026/history","analysis":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/administrative-arrangements-amendment-order-2026/documents"}}